Holiness may be found by being in the mere presence of books, without evening parting the pages.
You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you know and the boredom I know is like the...
It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.
In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itsel...
Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and desp...
Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.
Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.
The goal of management is to remove obstacles.
He's our rodent control officer. He doesn't catch mice, he just terrifies them.
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.
In this world, you get what you pay for.
The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of thei...
The first thing was not to panic, because all panic does is escalate the problem. (This is the first mistake that people make in situations like this: the cats lose their pee and the humans lose their shit.)
We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, clergy, and everyone in between, in order to keep millions from dying without homes.
I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the door I could barely see the light between them.
So Nikki came aboard as Jaqueline's spare cat, presumably in case our prime cat, Eliza, goes on vacation, takes industrial action, or requests a personal day.
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
